Unit 4
On this page you will find audio materials corresponding to Unit 4 of Bite-Size Arabic, divided into new letters and symbols, vocabulary, and exercises.
New Letters and Symbols
In this unit the following letters are introduced. You can click on the name of the letter to hear it pronounced.
| miim | |||
| Final | Medial | Initial | Independent |
| ـم | ـمـ | مـ | م |
| kaaf | |||
| Final | Medial | Initial | Independent |
| ـك | ـكـ | كـ | ك |
You also learned the hamza, which represents a glottal stop:
| hamza |
| ء |
| laam ’alif |
| لا |
Vocabulary
The following are the new words introduced in this unit. Click on the word to listen.
| مَن | man ‘who’ |
| مِن | min ‘from’ |
| ماء | maa’ ‘water’ |
| كَباب | kabaab ‘kabob’ |
| هُناكَ | hunaaka ‘there’ |
| مال | maal ‘money’ |
| أُمّ | ’umm ‘mother’ |
| يَوْم | yawm ‘day’ |
| الْيَوْم | ’al-yawm ‘today’ |
| كِتاب | kitaab ‘book’ |
You also learned the following men's names:
| هاني | haanii ‘Hani’ |
| كَمال | kamaal ‘Kamal’ |
| نَبِيل | nabiil ‘Nabil’ |
And the following women's names:
| نَوال | nawaal ‘Nawal’ |
| مَها | mahaa ‘Maha’ |
Exercises
The following is a selection of the exercises from this unit: 4-A, 4B, 4-C, 4-D, 4-E, 4-I.
Exercise 4-A. Sound out the following words. Click on the word to listen.
‘I write’
‘the cocoa’
‘your son’
‘kabob’
‘your father’
‘the cup’
Exercise 4-B. Sound out the following words. Click on the word to listen.
‘my mother’
‘I sleep’
‘the office’
‘actor’
‘the example’
‘my property’
Exercise 4-C. Read the following dialogue. Click to listen. The translation is in the answer key of your book.
| كَمال: | مَن هِيَ؟ |
| نَبيل: | هِيَ مَها. |
| كَمال: | مِن أَيْنَ هِيَ؟ |
| نَبيل: | هِيَ مِن لِيبِيا. |
Exercise 4-D. Sound out or transcribe the following words containing a final hamza.
‘sons’
‘the air’
‘epidemic’
Exercise 4-I. You know all of the following nouns, which are written here without any diacritics. Read aloud them aloud, taking care to use the correct form of the definite article.
Exercise 4-J. Translate the following sentences, which make full use of everything you have learned so far.
